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BANEDANMARK
We returned over three months in our working meetings
in the National Political Committee for Transport to this
priority discussion. Considering the political sensitivity of
such a change in priorities, our politicians bought in to the
model and have supported the result since.
Considering the challenges
Even though we have had a great success with changing the
way we work, there have been some challenges that we
didn’t entirely think through. It was our own and the
market’s ability to handle a threefold increase in production
in two years. These challenges are now surfacing, and some
of them include:
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The rail engineering market is limited and the abilities
have been liberalised and reduced substantially in the
past 10 years
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The rail constructor market has been liberalised.
Banedanmark’s own in-house construction company is
still the biggest player in the market
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Prices are very sensible to the activity in neighbouring
countries like Germany and Sweden
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We need to prove a 2% annual efficiency gain
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In 2014 the infrastructure backlog of 2006 must
be removed
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The operational budget was not increased proportionally
to the investment budget
In other words, the great challenge is to increase
efficiency with more or less the same workforce while
costs are rising.
And then there is signalling…
This article’s main objective has been to tell you about how
we have been working to rebuild confidence in railway
traffic and also in Rail Net Denmark as a company.
One of the next major achievements will have to do with
another remaining problem on the Danish railway – the
signalling and interlocking systems.
In 2006, Danish politicians made a principal decision
that the diverse signalling and interlocking systems on the
Danish rail net should be replaced by one system compliant
with the European ERTMS standard.
This decision was principal, because a more firm ground
is needed before a final decision on an investment of several
billion Euro can be taken. Repeating the framework from
the track project Rail Net Denmark is to provide this
fundament. This is being conducted within a project
programme with the task of providing a thorough
assessment of the feasibility and risks of a new system.
Problems with current signalling set up
A rise in the number of untraceable signal failure is the
most acute threat to punctuality. In current rail traffic, half
of all infrastructure related delays on the mainlines are due
to signalling.
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